Before the 1980s, abstract painting typically embraced pure form — gesture or geometry as something self-contained, insulated from outside contamination. Over the past generation, however, another ...

Duchamp was a touchstone for Vaccari, and the subject of many of his well regarded essays. He published ‘Duchamp and the ...

Under what circumstances does painting turn into conceptual art? You can see it happen in the work of German artist Markus Linnenbrink at Sweetow, which at first looks excessively optical. Viewer ...

This painting is inspired by the night of June 24. The shortest night of the year. In the Basque culture, this night is very special, big bonfires are made to burn the bad thoughts and purify the ...

For some strange reason, the show mostly tamped down my Sargentophilia. Maybe it was the sheer number of pictures on view, but something seemed to end up confirming Sargent’s reputation as a glib ...

Francisco Goya's "The Third of May 1808" depicting the execution by Napoleon's troops of a group of Spanish captives is an excruciating work of art. The French soldiers are painted in a tight group, ...

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